Property tax is a very important tax in terms of collection. However, sometimes one may have one or more properties but not such a good income and thus, property tax may turn out to be too difficult. Fortunately there are several forms of property tax relief that can provide a lot of ease during low income periods. These types of relief fall into different categories and an with the help of an experienced irs tax attorney, tax reductions can be achieved in different ways.

Deadline for employers to mail out Form W-2 to employees and for businesses to furnish Form 1099 statements reporting, among other things, non-employee compensation, bank interest, dividends, and distributions from a retirement plan. Deadline for self-employed individuals to file and to pay their tax and avoid a tax penalty for not making the 4th quarter estimated tax payment.

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The Dirty Dozen is a compilation of common scams taxpayers may encounter during the coming tax year, its put together by the IRS annually. And I can personally vouch for its usefulness; you should definitely go through the list. Now, you could encounter a scam any time of the year, but you may want to remain extra vigilant during the time leading up to the filing season.

It’s just 24 hours since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) transparency database went live, detailing for the first time payments by US drug and device makers to doctors and teaching hospitals in the country. Open Payments (http://cms.gov/openpayments/) has already attracted 11 million hits. What the headline data show is that 4.4 million payments totaling $3.5bn (£2.2bn; €2.8bn) were made to more than 546 000 physicians and 1360 teaching hospitals in the last five months of 2013.

The hunt for money to sustain the NHS in England is verging on the ridiculous. I thought that the Barker Commission, assembled by the think tank the King’s Fund to work out how to pay for merging health and social care,1 had hoovered up the very scrapings of the barrel. But then I heard Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, conjuring up farfetched ways to target unpopular people—mansion owners, tobacco companies, hedge funds—to keep the show on the road.2 And I knew that the game was up.

Politicians sometimes find themselves having to defend the indefensible. Recently England’s health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, was put in the unenviable position of having to counter criticisms of his predecessor Andrew Lansley’s NHS reorganisation. The charges were made by unnamed sources in Downing Street, who allegedly called the reorganisation the worst mistake of the coalition government and “unintelligible gobbledygook.”1

The Affordable Care Act’s core achievement is to make all Americans insurable, by requiring insurers to accept all applicants at rates based on population averages regardless of health status. The act also increases coverage by allowing states to expand Medicaid (the social healthcare program for families and people with low income and resources) to cover everyone near the poverty line, and by subsidizing private insurance for people who are not poor but who do not have workplace coverage. The act allows most people to keep the same kind of insurance that they currently have, and it does not change how private insurance pays physicians and hospitals. Although the act falls short of achieving truly universal coverage, nine million uninsured people have received coverage so far. Market reforms have not hurt the insurance industry’s profitability, prices for individual insurance have been lower than expected, and government costs so far have been less than initially projected. The act expands several ongoing pilot programs in Medicare that reform how doctors and hospitals are paid, but it does not directly change how private insurers pay healthcare providers. Nevertheless, it has set into motion market dynamics that are affecting medical practice, such as limiting insurance networks to fewer providers and requiring patients to pay for more treatment costs out of pocket. In response, many hospitals and physicians are forming closer and larger affiliations. Further time and study are needed to learn whether these evolutionary changes will achieve their goals without harming the doctor-patient relationship.